bandy legs
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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The wing/full-back graduated through a school of scaffolding rather than an academy and runs on bandy legs but he is as tough as they come.
From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013
Near them, a villager with bandy legs and a bulbous neck tumour is digging into the sand with half a white plastic plate and pouring it into a large bucket.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012
He would unselfconsciously offer up his seamed face to the questioning fingers of blind fans and trot up the grandstand on his bandy legs to patiently chat with people in wheelchairs.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2012
Mercier is "a big bony hank with a beard," and Camier has a "red face, scant hair, four chins, protruding paunch, bandy legs, beady pig eyes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Queen Selyse's uncle was a keg of a man with thick arms and bandy legs.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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